Obvious answer: institutional backing.
But I wonder why troons succeeded in garnering this kind of support while furries failed. I pull a complete blank on why. If anything, the ridiculousness of denying one's own gender is just as ridiculous as denying one's own species.
The similarities are uncanny:
- Origins in the pride/gay rights bullshit
- Delusions of self: "I am not what I am, I am what I imagine."
- Cluster effect: exposure to trannies creates trannies, just like exposure to furries creates furries.
- Insufferable personalities and overbearing self-inserting into normal spaces.
- Claiming negative reactions of the previous point as prosecution. "Literal Trans Genocide" vs "Fursecution"
- Expensive conversion to one's perfect form: Chopadickectomy vs full body Fursuit.
- Abject degenerate sexual tendencies with zero self restraint
- Subversive even to the concept of normality, seemingly proud to be a deviant.
- Riddled with mental illness: anxiety, depression, prone to violence
The entire thing for gays it was that they are born that way, hence there is no choice in the matter. They are claiming the same with trans and is a bit harder to sell then gays but I can see making it work. It all plays in to sympathy.
I just can't see getting off by wearing a giant stuffed animal as a "born that way" thing.
Yeah but there's no actual evidence gays are "born that way" -- But there's a lot of evidence that homosexuality is acquired environmentally (abuse, media, chemicals)